Recently,
I
worked on an project and caught
with an idea that
I should share the case with.
One of my clients wanted to use the custom post filter in his genesis
theme to get rid of the “post” navigation since he was running a
review website. And its justifiably so since it seems misleading to
the audience because they aren't reading the
actual posts but only reviews.
One
of the best things about genesis framework is that its flexible
enough to serve the
diverse
needs of its users at
the time of
custom WordPress development.
Genesis comes with rich “filter” functions under the theme
settings area, which lets you place the desirable text
on
the basis of the taxonomy (terms/categories/tags)
at the end of the index page.
Altering
this text within the genesis framework isn't an
uphill battle. All you need is simply go to your latest Genesis
(v1.6) wherein it's quite easy to filter older/newer and
next/previous text in the post navigation.
Getting The Grips of Older / Newer Post Navigation Filter
One
can easily perform modifications within the Genesis with the help pf
the functions that reside under the Genesis Theme Settings. Exploring
this particular area you'll assess Content Archives, where there is
an option called Post Navigation Technique”, already set as
Older/Newer. Here, the default output is “Older Posts and “Newer
Posts”, and in order to filter this, the below mentioned code
should be added to your child theme's functions.php file. Here I have
changed the example as to read Older and Newer Reviews.
add_filter(
'genesis_older_link_text', 'gt_review_older_link_text' );
function
gt_review_older_link_text() {
$olderlink
= '« Older Reviews';
return
$olderlink;
}
add_filter(
'genesis_newer_link_text', 'gt_review_newer_link_text' );
function
gt_review_newer_link_text() {
$newerlink
= 'Newer Reviews »';
return
$newerlink;
}
Previous / Next Post Navigation Filter
This
filter is just like the one we have
just mentioned above except that it runs when the “Select Post
Navigation Technique” which we find under the Content Archive is
set to Previous/Next instead of Older/Newer. Here also we are getting
a default output, which is “Previous Posts” and “Next Posts”.
To filter this, we have to add the following code within the
functions.php file which you can get inside the child theme. In
this example too we have edited it to Read Previous and Next Reviews.
add_filter(
'genesis_prev_link_text', 'gt_review_prev_link_text' );
function
gt_review_prev_link_text() {
$prevlink
= '« Previous Reviews';
return
$prevlink;
}
add_filter(
'genesis_next_link_text', 'gt_review_next_link_text' );
function
gt_review_next_link_text() {
$nextlink
= 'Next Reviews »';
return
$nextlink;
}
And
that's all you have to do. See pretty easy right?
Genesis
is a great framework with some truly astonishing settings that help
you create a website that helps you serve your client's needs
efficiently. Its
customization abilities are unique and they allow you give your
website and its readers what is actually useful to them.
However,
if you want to learn some more methods and ways to filter custom
posts than you can rely upon some handy plugins like Beautiful
Taxonomy Filters
. The
plugin can be described absolutely dynamic when it comes to add
filtering to your custom post types archives based on taxonomies. The
plugin is extremely useful to filter CPTs in the manner most
effective.
To
know more about this plugin, Beautiful Taxonomy Filters allows you
alter rules to create pretty filter URLs by eliminating the need to
use JavaScript. It
helps you spruce up your custom posts type archives by allowing
visitors filter posts on the basis of their terms or categories. The
plugin does everything for you in
the most seamless way. The plugin works
automatically,
without having
any need to use JavaScript,
and the best part is it is based on
WordPress Plugin Boilerplate which
allows you
organize
the codebase using
the object-oriented
approach.
The
plugin is capable enough to handle and include as many as filters.
However, if you have post type with varied taxonomies, you can better
keep out those who aren't useful for filtering.
Some of the other highlighted features include:
- Active filtering on any registered public custom post type.
- Keep those taxonomies out you don't want your visitors to filter on
- Comes complete with functional filter component which you can put in your theme.
- Visitors can be presented with the information regarding their current active filtering.
- Integrated with custom GET parameters.
- Additional filters, settings, and actions to fine tune the filter module behavior.
The
plugin provides a convenient and fast way of adding multiple
taxonomies to filter custom post types archives. One can also easily
extend its capabilities and actions to make it more compelling and
versatile. I personally have tested this plugin and found
it to be
extremely great in the way it helped me to achieve my goals. So, you
can also use it whenever the needs arise. It
will not disappoint you for sure. Even
if you are not confident about your skills you can better hire a WordPress developer,
who will deploy his skills and knowledge to give you exactly what you
have in your mind in an efficient manner.
